The Southeast
Michigan Census Councilis a non-profit organization dedicated to
promoting access to and use of demographic and related statistics in the
Southeast Michigan area. Formerly known as the Detroit Regional Census
Advisory Committee, we have been active for over thirty years in such
projects as delineating census tract boundaries, creating and publishing
the Census Tract Coding Guides, sponsoring census user conferences,
workshops and topic luncheons, and providing networking opportunities
for data users. Members include government and private non-profit
agencies, libraries, consultants, school districts, academicians,
citizen interest groups and private companies.

Joining SEMCC
means participating in the network of census data users in Michigan.
Members receive:

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Bi-monthly newsletter with updates on census issues, reviews of census
reports, information on access to data from a wide variety of public
sources, and more. The emailed newsletter includes links providing
direct access to information which is useful to you.

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Email announcements of important new data releases

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Phone and email access to SEMCC Executive Director Patricia (Patty)
Becker, who knows where "all the bodies are buried" in federal
statistics, as well as how to use the frustrating American FactFinder
system for accessing census data.